These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ough… - Plautus

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These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad. (translator Henry Thomas Riley)

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Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC – 184 BC), born at Sarsina, Emilia-Romagna, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC.

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Native Name: T. Maccius Plautus

Alternative Names: Titus Maccius Plautus

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But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.

The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.

[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus.

These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad. (translator Henry Tho… - Plautus

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